{"id":1494,"date":"2016-02-16T22:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1494-shake-rattle-and-grow.html"},"modified":"2016-02-16T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T12:11:03","slug":"shake-rattle-and-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1494-shake-rattle-and-grow.html","title":{"rendered":"Shake, Rattle and Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2077 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1323-_MG_7170.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI immensely dislike the expression &#8216;low hanging fruit&#8217; but when it comes to naturally photogenic, patient, and easy to photograph critters then hermit crabs fit the category.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis Hermit Crab (<em>Paguristes frontalisi<\/em>) under Edithburgh Jetty is wearing a shell that is probably a new acquisition and watching it struggle around with a shell two sizes too big borders on the comical.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLooking at the way the leading edge of the shell has been cracked away I&#8217;d say the most recent tenant made some futile attempts at home renovation before abandoning it in search of a larger home.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor now this guy has room to shake, rattle and space to grow.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Shake, Rattle and Grow&#8217;, 1\/100s f16 ISO400 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I immensely dislike the expression &#8216;low hanging fruit&#8217; but when it comes to naturally photogenic, patient, and easy to photograph critters then hermit crabs fit the category. This Hermit Crab (Paguristes frontalisi) under Edithburgh Jetty is wearing a shell that is probably a new acquisition and watching it struggle around with &#8230; <a title=\"Shake, Rattle and Grow\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1494-shake-rattle-and-grow.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Shake, Rattle and Grow\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}